All-optical networking Was: [Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads]

Fri Jul 12 21:47:16 UTC 2002

>> Add in the fact that optical sniffing, while not impossible by any means
>> today, will increasingly become non-trivial as bandwidth increases. Which
>> is exactly one of the 'problems' they expect optical network to solve.
>
> You mean just expensive, right? i.e. a couple transponders and an OC48 or
> OC192 switch.

Depending on what you are trying to gather, it will also become more 
difficult at higher speeds to due the data volume. But you are right in 
that it's more about money than effort in the end.

- kurtis -